Competency Gap: How Students and Teachers Perception of Competencies Differ from Employers

Mansoor Shahab

• Publisher: GRIN Verlag
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9783656323488
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Human Resource Management
• Index: Business

Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources - Miscellaneous, course: MBA, language: English, abstract: This research is concerned with education employment equation in education sector. Thisresearch will be based on perception of employers, teachers and students about the competenciesthe graduates possess. Many employers think that employability skills should be shapedsomewhere else in graduates before entering workplace, throughout the curriculum at all levels.They think that students should be prepared for workplace. It is suspected that widening theaccess of higher education has increased the heterogeneity of the skills of the students in theindustry. Employers have indicated that students are often not prepared for the workplace andcall on universities to produce work-ready graduates. Educational institutions are under pressureto generate competent students, so that they are able to respond in ever changing environmentThis study aims to explore the level of competencies perceived by employers, teacher'sperception about their students and students themselves perception about their competencies andidentify the gaps that need to be addressed. This research will focus where students of Comsatsare standing in case of competencies according to employers, teachers and their own perception.The gaps between the ranks are evaluated. The study is conducted by applying conveniencesampling method. To determine the internal consistency, Cronbach Alpha test of the individualvariables is applied, the overall reliability is found to be acceptable.